Many past winners and judges of the main Booker prize have signed up to advise on its international sister prize
Full details of the 80-strong group of Man Booker prize-winning novelists and former prize judges – including double winner Hilary Mantel, and AS Byatt, a former judge and winner of the prize – will offer informal advice to the Man Booker International prize judges.
The formation of a new "e-council" of advisers, who will never meet face to face, hit a bump in September when Antonia Fraser withdrew from the network in protest at the expansion of the Man Booker prize to include American writers. Changes to the prize rules meaning that writers in English from any country are now eligible have been criticised by writers including Philip Hensher, who wrote in the Guardian that "it is hard to see how the American novel will fail to dominate".
Members of the e-council have been invited to make reading suggestions for the 2015 prize, from which the judges will hone a list of eight finalists to be announced early that year. "Between them, they offer an astonishing wealth of knowledge and experience in international literature. Our 2015 judges are looking forward to considering their suggestions for the initial reading list," said prize administrator Fiammetta Rocco. The 2015 Man Booker International prize judges will be chaired by Marina Warner.
Big literary names on the advisory network include writers Susan Hill and John Sutherland, both of whom have judged the Man Booker prize twice. Previous Booker winners including Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), and VS Naipaul (1971) are also advising.
The Man Booker International prize, worth £60,000, is awarded every two years to a living author for a body of work which represents "an achievement in fiction on the world stage", and is published either originally in English or is available in translation. The prize was inaugurated in 2005, with this year's award going to US writer Lydia Davis. The previous winners are Philip Roth (2011), Alice Munro (2009), Chinua Achebe (2007) and Ismail Kadare (2005).
The international award differs from the Man Booker prize, which is presented for a single novel written in English. When the expansion of the Man Booker to include all writers worldwide was revealed, chairman of the trustees Jonathan Taylor said: "We are embracing the freedom of English in its versatility, its vigour, its vitality and its glory wherever it may be. We are abandoning the constraints of geography and national boundaries."
The Man Booker prize has also sought to limit the number of titles that its judges are asked to read. Judges were asked to read 151 books this year, but the new rules will limit submissions depending on the number of titles for which a publisher has been longlisted within the past five years.
The full list of advisers joining the e-council is:
David Baddiel, Man Booker prize judge 2002
John Banville, Man Booker prize winner 2005
Professor Gillian Beer, Booker prize judge 1993, Booker prize Chair 1997
Rachel Billington OBE, Booker prize judge 1997
Professor Dinah Birch, Man Booker prize judge 2012
Dame Antonia Byatt CBE, Booker prize winner 1990, Booker prize judge 1974
Carmen Callil, Booker prize chair 1996, Man Booker International prize judge 2011
Professor John Carey, Booker prize chair 1982, Man Booker prize Chair 2003
Russell Celyn Jones, Man Booker prize judge 2002
Anne Chisholm, Booker prize judge 1993
Susannah Clapp, Booker prize judge 1990
Alex Clark, Man Booker prize judge 2008
Nicholas Clee, Booker prize judge 1993
Wendy Cope OBE, Man Booker prize judge 2007
Jason Cowley, Booker prize judge 1997
Professor Valentine Cunningham, Booker prize judge, 1992 and 1998
Sir Howard Davies, Man Booker prize Chair 2007
Kiran Desai, Man Booker prize winner 2006
Louise Doughty, Man Booker prize judge 2008
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Man Booker prize judge 2013
Roddy Doyle, Booker prize winner 1993
Anne Enright, Man Booker prize winner 2007
Tibor Fischer, Man Booker prize judge 2004
Dr Amanda Foreman, Man Booker prize judge 2012
Aminatta Forna, Man Booker International prize judge 2013
Roy Foster, Booker prize judge 2000
Mariella Frostrup, Booker prize judge 2000
John Fuller, Booker prize judge 1984
Rick Gekoski, Man Booker prize judge 2005, Man Booker International prize Chair 2011
Miriam Gross, Booker prize judge 1998
Dr Harriet Harvey Wood, Booker prize judge 1992
Tobias Hill, Man Booker prize judge 2010
Susan Hill CBE, Booker prize judge 1975, Man Booker prize judge 2011
Alan Hollinghurst, Man Booker prize winner 2004
Elizabeth Jane Howard OBE, Booker prize judge 1974
Lord Hurd, Booker prize chair 1998
Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker prize winner 1989
Howard Jacobson, Man Booker prize winner 2010
Sir Simon Jenkins, Booker prize chair 2000
Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman PC MP, Booker prize Chair 1999
Stuart Kelly, Man Booker prize judge 2013
Thomas Keneally, Booker prize winner 1982
AL Kennedy, Booker prize judge 1996
Andrey Kurkov, Man Booker International prize judge 2009
Mark Lawson, Booker prize judge 1992
Professor Hermione Lee, Booker prize judge 1981, Man Booker prize Chair 2006
Yiyun Li, Man Booker International prize judge 2013
Dame Penelope Lively, Booker prize winner 1987
Alberto Manguel, Man Booker prize judge 2005
Hilary Mantel CBE, Man Booker prize winner 2009 and 2012
Yann Martel, Man Booker prize winner 2002
Allan Massie, Booker prize judge 1987
Lucasta Miller, Man Booker judge 2009
Professor Karl Miller, Booker prize Chair 1973
Blake Morrison, Booker prize judge 1988
Sir Andrew Motion, Man Booker prize Chair, 2010
John Mullan, Man Booker prize judge, 2009
Sir VS Naipaul, Booker prize winner 1971
Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE, Booker prize judge 1994
Tim Parks, Man Booker International prize judge 2013
Rowan Pelling, Man Booker prize judge 2004
DBC Pierre, Man Booker prize winner 2003
Michael Prodger, Man Booker prize judge 2009
Tony Quinn, Man Booker prize judge 2006
Sir Christopher Ricks, Man Booker International prize Chair 2013
Ann Schlee, Booker prize judge 1991
Dr Ruth Scurr, Man Booker prize judge 2007
Elaine Showalter, Man Booker International prize Chair 2007
Hardeep Singh Kohli, Man Booker prize judge 2008
Jane Smiley, Man Booker International prize Chair 2009
Lord Chris Smith of Finsbury, Man Booker prize judge 2004
Imogen Stubbs, Man Booker prize judge 2007
Professor John Sutherland, Booker prize judge 1999, Man Booker prize Chair 2005
Bharat Tandon, Man Booker prize judge 2012
DJ Taylor, Man Booker prize judge 2003
Anthony Thwaite, Booker prize judge 1986
Colm Tóibín , Man Booker International prize judge 2007
Boyd Tonkin, Booker prize judge 1999
Jeremy Treglown, Booker prize Chair 1991
Salley Vickers, Man Booker prize judge 2002
George Walden, Booker prize chair 1995
Natasha Walter, Booker prize judge 1999
Fay Weldon, Booker prize Chair 1983
Frances Wilson, Man Booker prize judge 2010
Professor Rory Watson, Booker prize judge 2001
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